Sir Francis Drake Revived: Calling Upon This Dull or Effeminate Age, to Follow His Noble Steps for Gold and Silver (Classic Reprint)

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R T he third day after, about'three tn the'after-'noon, we let I ail from the continent Of fem lime-o And the fifth day after, we had fight of the'high land of. ~smtamm ha,but Came nor neer the {hoarby ten leagues -but thence direéted our courfe, for a place called by us Pan five/21m, for that our'captain had to named-ir in his -formér, voyage,by,reaflon of the great fi'orej'of thof e gem ly Fowls', which he and his Company did then dayly kill, and feed on, in that place. In this courfegnotwithfianding {we had two dayes calme,yet Within fix dayes we arived at ourfiport Pbefwt,: which is a fine round Bay, Of very fafe harbonr for all winds, lying betweene two high points, not 'paft halfé a [cables length over at the inouth,'bnt within eight orf ten cables length everyway, having ten or twelve fadome water,more or lefl'e, full of good fiflr, the foile'alfo very fruitful] which may appear by this, that our. Captain having been in this place, within a year 'and few da'yes before, and having rid the pl ace with many alleyes and paths made, yet now all was fo'overgrowne a gaine, as that wedoubted at fitfi, whether this.

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